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Andersen picks up Jolie and Amnesty children’s rights collaboration


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Andersen Press has bought world rights to Angelina Jolie’s and


Amnest International’s collabo- ration on a “vitally important” book on children’s human rights. Know Your Rights (And Claim


Them) aims to help every child and young person to know their rights, understand how they relate to them individually, where to go for help if their rights are violated and how to claim them. It comes, Amnest said, “at a time when unprecedented numbers of children are protesting on a global scale, in the streets and online”. Jolie will write the introduc-


ANGELINA JOLIE HAS BEEN A UN SPECIAL RIGHTS ENVOY FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS


tion to the book, with Amnest supplying the text, in consultation with Jolie and British human rights lawyer Geraldine Van Bueren, who was one of the draſt- ers of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Jolie, who has been a UN special envoy since 2012, and Amnest announced that they were working on developing the book at the 2019


Curtis Brown looks to break into French market with Edouard and Nozières


Curtis Brown is attempting to break into the French market as part of an effort to shed its Anglo-centricity and increase its global footprint. Jonny Geller, c.e.o. of Original Talent, chairman of Curtis Brown and chair of the Books division at Curtis Brown, told The Bookseller Daily that “with the explosion of television markets around the world, there is more and more demand for stories from everywhere. We have too long been Anglo-centric and instead of offering merely a gateway to UK and US markets for French writers, we are keen to explore how French


authors can be published everywhere and promote their material on the inter- national TV markets.” Spearheading the move are Roxane


Edouard and Claire Nozières, who have worked for the 121-year-old Curtis Brown for 10 and five years, respectively. They are keen to focus on France because they are both “Francophone and Francophile”, they told online book news site ActuaLitté, which broke the news of Curtis Brown’s push into France. The two are signing their first French authors, and no longer have to “sell” the value of literary agents in France, where


Ode to Joyce: New Island nabs O’Connor’s latest, reimagining Irish author’s muse Nora


New Island has snapped up author and poet Nuala O’Connor’s fifth novel, a “tour de force” reimagining the life of “Ireland’s greatest muse” Nora Joyce. Commissioning editor Aoife K


Walsh bought Irish rights for Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce from Gráinne Fox at Fletcher & Company. Fox also sold North American rights to Sarah Stein at Harper Books, while German rights have gone to Suhrkamp. New Island will publish in April 2021.


TheBookseller.com The book begins when Nora


Barnacle, a 20-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets young James Joyce on a summer’s day in Dublin and is instantly attracted to him, but “she cannot yet imagine the extraordinary life they will share together”. In real life, Joyce and Barnacle


met in 1904 and their first date, on 16th June of that year, is the date on which his novel Ulysses is set—now celebrated as “Bloomsday”. Barnacle


NUALA O’CONNOR’S FIFTH NOVEL FOLLOWS


THE JOYCES’ MARRIAGE


they used to be taboo, said Nozières. She added: “Even major houses, which appear to be reticent about working with agents for French authors, have taken the step.” Authors signing with the French Curtis Brown team will pay a 15% commission on print and audiobook advances for publication in France, and 20% for foreign, film and TV rights. The agency is also tackling the


Italian market. Italian native speaker Enrichetta Frezzato has already signed a number of authors, including Captain Gennaro Arma, Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo and Marco Rossari.


BOOKELLER RISING STAR ROXANE EDOUARD WILL CO-LEAD THE VENTURE


Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Chloe Sackur, Andersen Press’ commissioning editor, acquired the title through Curtis Brown’s Stephanie Thwaites. The publisher will release Know Your Rights (And Claim Them) in September 2021 as a “stlish, clear and easy to navigate toolkit” aimed at readers aged 13 and up. In spring 2022 there will be an abridged version for 11-plus read- ers, A Pocket Book of Rights, “to be used both as an on-the-go hand- book and as a simpler, shorter introduction to child rights”. Jolie said: “Today we have youth engaged and ready to fight. But many struggle with misinformation from adults, a lack of awareness of their rights, and a lack of knowledge of how to use the specifics of their rights, applying them to the country and circumstances in which they live. We need to give them the tools to strengthen their fight and empower them.” Reporting Tom Tivnan


and Joyce eloped later that year, moving to Trieste (though the two only legally married in 1931), and would spend most of the rest of their lives in continental Europe. Galway-based O’Connor’s most


recent novel was 2018’s Becoming Belle, based on the real-life Victorian era rags-to-riches story of “peasant countess” the Countess of Clancarty. She said her book was “an homage to Nora Barnacle as individual, woman, caretaker and mother, firstly; and, secondly, to Joyce as life-partner, father and genius writer. I try to look with empathy at this extraordinary couple who age and grow together.”


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